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TIL that Tesla has solved the problem of long distance electric car travel through the use of battery swap stations. Replace your empty battery for a fully charged battery in 90 seconds, which is quicker than topping your tank.

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6EL1l TIL that one of the charges against Marie Antoinette included incestuous relations with her son Louis-Charles, who was forced to testify that his mother had molested him. After a two-day show trial, an all-male jury found the former queen guilty on all charges and unanimously condemned her to death.
lxAV TIL that the creepy white face animation in the “We Can’t Stop” music video is actually from a very early CGI demo from 1974.
P1LvL TIL: The official song of POTUS, Hail to the Chief, was adapted from an original Gaelic melody
JYw18 TIL that Cadbury creme eggs are just filled with melted fondant...
BrRGK TIL that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was an ad slogan invented in the 19th century by Seventh Day Adventists James Caleb Jackson and John Harvey Kellogg to sell their newly invented breakfast cereal.